WORLD DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, April 10, 1996

AH: School rampage site being torn down Dunblane, Scotland Workers Wednesday began demolishing the Scottish school gym where a crazed misfit killed 16 children and their teacher before committing suicide.

The bullet-riddled gym, being pulled down at the request of grieving parents, will be replaced by a flower garden.

The demolition is expected to take two days. The children return after their Easter holiday break next week.

Oil tanks burning

at Chechnya refinery Grozny, Russia A fire raged at an oil refinery here in the Chechnya capital Wednesday after shots were fired at the installation by unidentified people, Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reported.

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Two storage tanks, each containing 5,000 tons of fuel oil, were on fire, said the agency, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp. There was danger that the blaze would spread to two nearby tanks, a member of Grozny's fire brigade was quoted as saying.

The Russian army said Tuesday it had seized a key Chechen rebel stronghold but insisted it was holding back from active operations in compliance with President Boris Yeltsin's latest peace plan.

Ancient relics found

at China dam site Beijing Archaeologists have found relics up to 6,000 years old during excavations for central China's Three Gorges dam project, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.

More than 4.9 acres of land at historical sites has been excavated in search of hidden treasures, Xinhua said. These sites are soon to be flooded for the creation of a huge reservoir in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges.

Mexican coverup

suspects arrested Mexico City Two men who allegedly allowed the brother of a former Mexican president to conceal some of his property holdings under their names have been arrested on fraud charges, officials said.

Juan Gomez Caro and Jesus Gomez Portugal were detained Tuesday as part of an ongoing embezzlement investigation of Raul Salinas, who is in jail on separate murder charges, the attorney general's office said in a statement.&lt;

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